Small Sand Washing Plant in South Africa

Currently, South Africa is experiencing one of its best economic periods in many decades. In the next years, the medium-term outlook for the aggregate and sand industry in South Africa remains positive, with prospects for continued growth supporting new investment in production capacity.

The aggregate and sand industry has experienced fluctuating market conditions on a cyclical basis for a number of years. Due to the current housing and infrastructure backlog, the sand industry, as a supplier to the construction and building industries, is expected to grow faster than GDP.

In the long term, sand consumption in South African still has significant room for growth, which leads to the great demand for sand making machines and sand washing machines. For those small sand producers, they prefer the small sand washing plants in South Africa. In their opinion, small sand washing plant can meet their production scale, and need low operation cost.

Small Sand Washing Plant in South Africa

Small sand washing plant, also named as small sand washing machine, or sand washer, refers to the machine used to remove dust in sand, and improve the quality of sand in the process of sand making. Typically, in the sand making industry, it has two kinds of small sand washing plant in South Africa, including the wheel-type and screw-type.

When working, the sand washing plant drives the impeller in the water groove to move like a circle transmitted by electric motor and decelerator. SBM’s LSX series small sand washing plant in South Africa adopts the inclination of 15°.

Under the water tub, three weir plates form the sediment pool, the screw head is immersed in this pool, the screw is driven by electric motor through reducer rotating continuously, the fresh water is feeding from porous plate at bottom of sediment pool, this machine have three functions of washing, dewatering, classifying.